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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. FISCHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 672,895, dated April30, 1901. i Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial No. 37,493.(No'medel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andvState of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is aspecification. .This invention relates to puzzles; and the object is toprovide a simple, cheap, and amusing puzzle.

With the above object in view the invention consists in thenovelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described, particularlypointed out in theclaims, and clearly illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a puzzle embodying myinvention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective 'viewof one of the gates.

Referring now more particularly to theaccompanyiug drawings,A'designates a baseboard, preferably rectangular in outline and havingsecured about its edges Iianges B, which prevent the marbles'with whichthe puzzleis played from rolling from the board. Positioned upontheboard are lpins ork projections C, so arranged as to form acircuitouspath. At one end of the'board a plurality of open-ended compartments Dare formed by pins E, placed in alinement. Each compartment bears thename of one of the nations of the world which `participated inthecapture of Pekin-namely, England, Russia, America, Germany, andFrance-while the word Pekin is printed in large letters across the board at the inner ends of. said compartment-s, as illustrated. Thecompartments are closed by swinging gates, as illustrated, each gate`being composed of a piece of metal bent intermediate its ends to form aloop F, which is placed upon one ofthe pins, so as to pivot the Y gate.`This loop is `placed nearer oneend of the gate than the other, so as toprovide a gate portion Gclosing one of the compartments,.- and a gateportion H, abutting one of the pins of the next compartment, so as toclose saidi compartment also and prevent the opening of the gate of thatcompartment until the gate portion G of the compartment on the left isThus each compartment excepting the one on the left is provided with adouble gate, and the gates of the compartments must be openedsuccessively, beginning with the one on the left, or the first of thelseries.

'Adjacent to the opposite end of the board the word Home is printed, andfrom this point the marbles I must be started to begin the solution ofthe puzzle. These marbles I correspond in number to the nationsrepresented, and each marble bears a color, said colors corresponding tothe colors of the several, compartments.

The object is to roll the marbles by tilting vthe board through thecircuitous path and.

lodge the same in the proper compartments, the game being designed torepresent the taking of the gates of Pekin by the foreign nations.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A- puzzle comprising a base-board and a plurality of balls adapted tomove thereon, and bearing distinguishing marks or characters, incombination Witha series of pins secured to said board to form acircuitous path,

`a plurality of compartments arranged at one end of the board andbearing distinguishing marks or characters corresponding with the marksor characters carried by the balls, and

swinging gates controlling the entrance to said compartments,substantially as described.

2. A puzzle consisting of a base-board and a plurality of balls adaptedto move thereon, in combination with a series of pins arranged upon thebase-board to form acircuitous path, a plurality of compartments formedat one vend of the board, and swinging gates controlling the entrance ofsaid compartments, each gate having a portion closing the entrance tothe next compartment and positioned inadvanceof the gate of thatcompartment, substantially as described.

' CHARLES E. FISCHER.

v Witnesses:

OTTO SCHULZ, GEO. WINTEESTEIN.

